Yes. I worked at amazon from 2015-2018. I worked pretty hard the first 6 months. It was my first job out of college. There was a lot to learn in the beginning. 8-12 months in I was barely doing any work and I knew several people who hadn’t done any work in months and sometime even a year or longer.
The thing is a lot of projects get over staffed and work gets split up with too many people. It’s also not an environment where you are allowed to take initiative and take on work yourself because a manager pretty much has to assign you work (every piece of work or project is someone’s promotion project) and how they assign work and to whom has a lot of strategy behind it.
The only good thing is the pay. The pay is so high you can FIRE pretty quickly.
It got boring pretty fast. Since your there already I would suggest saving money as aggressively as possible while you figure out what to do next.
The thing is a lot of projects get over staffed and work gets split up with too many people. It’s also not an environment where you are allowed to take initiative and take on work yourself because a manager pretty much has to assign you work (every piece of work or project is someone’s promotion project) and how they assign work and to whom has a lot of strategy behind it.
The only good thing is the pay. The pay is so high you can FIRE pretty quickly.
It got boring pretty fast. Since your there already I would suggest saving money as aggressively as possible while you figure out what to do next.